Doctoral Dissertation Research: Developmental Trajectories: A Comparative-Historical Analysis

博士论文研究：发展轨迹：比较历史分析

• 批准号: 0825130
• 负责人: Patrick Heller
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0825130&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Developmental; Trajectories

SES-0824130Patrick HellerChristopher GibsonBrown UniversityBrazil in the 20th century was among the most unequal - and persistently unequal - societies in world history. Over the long run, how, when, and why did Brazil became so persistently unequal in its social and economic development? This project first documents a new dimension of Brazilian inequality by showing that Brazil's states generally maintained their levels of economic and social development relative to one another throughout most of the 20th century. Through a comparative historical analysis of Brazilian states, the co-PI will use archives and regional and local histories to test five hypotheses about potential long-run causes of this inequality, including the extent of Portuguese colonial penetration by 1650, the intensity of slavery by 1650 and by 1888, the presence of labor-intensive estates after 1700, the intensity of tropical export agriculture after 1700, and liberal or conservative control of provincial governments after the mid 19th century. Initial research suggests that an overlooked variable drove Brazilian social and economic inequality: control of the sub-national state and its precursors by different class configurations. The study will contribute a detailed and comprehensive study of the Brazilian case to the evolving theoretical framework in sociology on legacies of colonialism. Broader impacts of the study include: 1) enhanced multidisciplinary collaborations for future research; and 2) broad dissemination of findings to lay, policy, and academic audiences. First, the project will build and deepen multidisciplinary collaborations with social scientists and historians of Brazil by participating in multi- and interdisciplinary conferences, workshops, and research partnerships. Second, findings will be disseminated broadly to academic, policy, and lay audiences, contributing a more robust empirical understanding of the differential historical trajectories of inequality in different regions of Brazil.

SES -0824130 Patrick Hellerchristopher Gibsonbrown Universitybrazil在20世纪是世界历史上最不平等，持续不平等的社会之一。 从长远来看，巴西如何，何时以及为什么在其社会和经济发展中如此不平等？ 该项目首先记录了巴西不平等的新维度，表明巴西国家在整个20世纪的大部分时间里通常保持其经济和社会发展水平。 通过对巴西国家的比较历史分析，Co-Pi将使用档案，区域和地方历史来测试有关这种不平等潜在的长期原因的五个假设19世纪中叶之后的省政府。 最初的研究表明，被忽视的变量驱动了巴西的社会和经济不平等：通过不同的阶级配置对次国国家及其前体的控制。 该研究将为巴西案例提供一项详细而全面的研究，以在殖民主义遗产的社会学中不断发展的理论框架。该研究的更广泛影响包括：1）增强了未来研究的多学科合作；和2）广泛传播介绍，政策和学术受众的发现。 首先，该项目将通过参加多学科和跨学科的会议，研讨会和研究合作伙伴关系，与巴西的社会科学家和历史学家建立和加深与巴西的社会科学家和历史学家合作。 其次，发现将广泛地传播到学术，政策和外行观众，对巴西不同地区不平等的差异历史轨迹有更强有力的经验理解。